| Epistulae Contributor(s): Papaioannou, Stratis (Editor), Psellus, Michael (Based on a Book by) |
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ISBN: 3110622017 ISBN-13: 9783110622010 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $152.94 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval - History | Europe - Medieval - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Physical Information: 3.3" H x 6.5" W x 9.3" (5.10 lbs) 1392 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The two volumes offer the first critical edition of the entire letter-collection of Michael Psellos; a total of 563 texts, including spuria, rewritings, and excerpts. Psellos (11th c., Constantinople) is a well-known figure among students of Byzantine culture and arguably the most prolific and influential middle Byzantine learned author. His letter-collection, preserved in 53 Byzantine and post-Byzantine manuscripts, grants us glimpses into the lives of well-known but also everyday Byzantines, sheding light upon Constantinopolitan networks of friendship and power and, more importantly, upon habits of rhetorical craftsmanship, literary imagination, and typologies of self. |